If you're part of a long tradition and yet still can't provide rational arguments for its continued existence then it only exists because of feelings, which wil

If you're part of a long tradition and yet still can't provide rational arguments for its continued existence then it only exists because of feelings, which will inevitably, fade. Learning incrementally is not the same as following an unjustifiable tradition, nor is it in opposition to wanting to provide arguments based on what we know now. A tradition is in opposition to learning incrementally, because when it is wrong there will be unjustifiable resistance to correction.